Posted on 04/19/2021 3:56:44 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Secretary of State Tony Blinken delivered an address on climate change at the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland on Monday in which he admitted that some American workers “would be hit hard” by the Biden administration’s policies.
Blinken said that the U.S. needed to lead the global fight against climate change, warning that if global surface temperatures continued to rise, in 80 years, the Chesapeake would extend further inland, destroying infrastructure and putting local plants and animals at risk, as well as the local fishing industry.
Referring to the “climate crisis,” Blinken noted that President Joe Biden had rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement immediately on taking office. He did not note that U.S. emissions had continued to decline after the U.S. left the agreement under President Donald Trump.
“If America fails to lead the world on the climate crisis, we won’t have much of a world left,” Blinken said, sounding an alarmist tone that scientists have begun to criticize more openly.
Blinken also claimed that “weather events are becoming more extreme,” another claim that scientists have criticized.
Much of Blinken’s speech focused on domestic policy — for example, stressing the need for “good, paying jobs, and the opportunity to join a union” as part of climate change policy.
At one point, Blinken admitted that Biden’s policy would cause job losses for some Americans.
“We will be mindful that for all the opportunities offered by the unavoidable shift to clean energy, not every American worker will win out in the near term. Some livelihoods and communities that relied on old industries will be hit hard.”
But, he promised: “We won’t leave those Americans behind. We’ll provide our fellow Americans with pathways to new, sustainable livelihoods, and support as they navigate this transition.”
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Tens of thousands were unemployed from his first day in office shutting down a pipeline. How many more will suffer for this fool.
Stealing money from everyone so he can give it to the Democratic Party and friends
The Democrat Party is run by people who are criminally insane.
I wonder if some politicians may be hard hit in return? People who have lost their livelihood unfairly, they do unpredictable things. You know?
Blynkin is nodding and winkin’ at the Marxist, anti-Science agenda of his leftist comrades.
Joseph Stolen is an idiot.
You are assuming that votes matter.
What is the surface temperature that we should be aiming for, Mr. Blinken?
I read that they plan to re-direct auto workers (surplussed by mandating electric cars) to installing solar roofs. Good luck with that.
He could mention the upside——Chinese Communists will flourish as we decline over faulty “man made” angle which they promoted for years. Madonna and Cher will be happy.
>>If America fails to lead the world on the climate crisis, we won’t have much of a world left,” Blinken said,<<
So why is it American must lead the world? Would it not make more sense for the #1 and #2 polluters in the world...to lead the charge?
“Some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.”
Said no one ever.
What’s SO STUPID is there are several new primary energy sources (one in particular that was demo’d in Wash DC in Feb) on the horizon but these stupid a**hats are NOT in any able to recognize this ...
It’s so d*mningly stupid, ALL this money FOR NAUGHT, to fight a bogus bogey man.
never trust a government that opens its border and distributes thousands of disease carrying invaders across its country during a so called global pandemic...
It's all right in front of our faces, unleashed border madness, etc..
“The Democrat Party is run by people who are criminally insane.”
And they’re voted into office by the clinically insane.
Climate Change Policy
The Sugar Plum Fairy administration.
Some American workers will be hit hard, eh? I guess the workers that won’t be hit hard will be those not associated with the “economy”, because that is what the “Green New Deal” is designed to destroy. Government bureaucrats do not depend on a working economy for their jobs.
Globalist corporations have ways of insulating themselves from economic downturns, particularly when the downturn is deliberately planned and executed by those corporate oligarchs. How convenient!
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